Augusta Jane Evans Early years What were her early years like? She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia, Did she stay in Columbus for her entire childhood? scarcely ten when they moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845.
Was she poor growing up?
Was Augusta Jane Evans poor growing up?
She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia, the eldest child of the family. The area of her birth was then known as Wynnton (now MidTown). Her mother was Sarah S. Howard and her father was Matthew R. Evans. She was a descendant on her mother's side from the Howards, one of the most cultured families of Georgia. As a young girl in 19th-century America, she received little in the way of a formal education. However, she became a voracious reader at an early age.  Her father suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. He moved his family of ten from Georgia for Alabama, and scarcely ten when they moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. When the Mexican-American War had ended, and everything was in a disorganized condition, consequently there were no schools of any prominence. Had her mother not been cultivated and literary, Evans could never have obtained the education which fitted her for the work she later accomplished. During the Mexican war, San Antonio was the rendezvous for the United States troops sent to assist General Zachary Taylor, and the brilliant uniforms of the soldiery, the martial music, and the exciting events that accompany war, combined with the picturesque, enchanting scenery around San Antonio, furnished an excellent theme for Evans' first novel. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, she wrote Inez: A Tale of the Alamo, a sentimental, moralistic, anti-Catholic love story. It told the story of one orphan's spiritual journey from religious skepticism to devout faith. She presented the manuscript to her father as a Christmas gift in 1854. It was published anonymously in 1855.  However, life in a frontier border town like San Antonio proved dangerous, especially with the Mexican-American War. By 1849, Evans' parents moved the family to Mobile, Alabama. She wrote her next novel, Beulah, at age 18; it was published in 1859. Beulah began the theme of female education in her novels. It sold well, selling over 22,000 copies during its first year of publication, a staggering accomplishment. It established her as Alabama's first professional author. Her family used the proceeds from her literary success to purchase Georgia Cottage on Springhill Avenue. CANNOTANSWER
Her father suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s.
Anna Davin (born 1940) is a British academic and community historian; she is noted for her studies of working-class communities and her contributions to feminist politics and history-writing. She was a research fellow at Middlesex University.

Life 
Davin was born in 1940, the daughter of Dan and Winne Davin, who both worked for Oxford University Press. In 1958, she got married and subsequently raised children, but she returned to education, studying history at the University of Warwick from 1966 to 1969, and was a founding member of the Women's Liberation Group there (1968). The experience of raising children and returning to education meant the she "was thinking class and gender very strongly". In 1970, she began studying for a PhD at Birkbeck College, London. While in London, she joined the Stratford Women's Liberation Group (helping to produce its publication, Shrew) and a feminist history group based in Pimlico. She also became involved in the 1970s in the History Workshop Movement; she was a founder editor of the History Workshop Journal (founded in 1976). Between 1972 and 1974, she was involved in the People's Autobiography of Hackney, an oral history project organised with the Hackney Workers' Educational Association.

In 1979, she started teaching six-week classes in history at Binghamton University, but otherwise taught evening classes in London during the 1980s. She returned to her PhD studies in the early 1990s; the doctorate was awarded in 1991 for her thesis "Work and school for the children of London's labouring poor in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century". In the 1990s, Davin became a research fellow at Middlesex University and published a book, Growing Up Poor (1996).

Selected publications 
 "Imperialism and motherhood", History Workshop Journal, no. 5 (1978), pp. 9–65.
 Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street in London 1870-1914 (London: Rivers Oram Press, 1996).

References

External links 
 "Papers of Anna Davin", Women's Library Archives (reference no. GB 106 7ADA; formerly GB 106 7/XX26-XX26a).

1940 births
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
British historians
Social historians
Feminist historians
Living people Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X is a 2002 book by Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. Shabazz wrote the book with Kim McLarin.

In Growing Up X, Shabazz writes about what it was like to grow up in the shadow of her father, a human rights activist who was assassinated when she was two years old. She also writes about her mother and sisters, and her early life growing up, along with her personal memories and feelings about Malcolm X. Shabazz has commented that she was nervous about releasing the book, because she did not want to ruin people's expectations of her, but has received unexpectedly great praise for her writing.

Further reading

External links
Discussion on Growing Up X with Ilyasah Shabazz at the Library of Congress, June 19, 2002

2002 non-fiction books
African-American autobiographies
Collaborative non-fiction books
Works about Malcolm X Lexis “Lexi” Marie Brumback (born January 11, 2000) is an American cheerleader and television personality. She received national recognition after appearing in the Netflix docuseries Cheer. She is known for being a tumbler with elite tumbling skills.

Personal life 
Brumback is originally from Houston, Texas. She attended Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas, where she was member of the cheer team coached by Monica Aldama. She admitted to making poor choices growing up, landing her in trouble after she "spent a night in jail after getting into a fight." During the finale of Cheer, it was revealed that she was kicked off of the team when she got into trouble after being pulled over in a car containing "illegal stuff." She has since rejoined the team. In January 2020, she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, along with other members of the team.

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2000 births
People from Houston
Living people
American women television personalities
Navarro College cheer alumni
Television personalities from Texas